[ltp] updated airo driver for MPI350 cards

[Peter Johanson]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:52:22PM +0200, Fabrice Bellet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Last week, Cisco updated their linux driver for the MPI350 cards
> (http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/aironet-utils-linux). The
> good news is that I could port some of its new features (and bug fixes)
> to the regular airo.c driver :

excellent!

> 
>   . the driver is no longer stuck with old 5.00.01/03/08 firmwares. It
>   supports a firmware version up to 5.30.17 (please, only use ACU under 
>   Windows to flash your firmware).
> 

Just how horrible is it to attempt a firmware upgrade using ACU under
linux with the current airo driver from the 2.6 kernels? Getting access
to a laptop with a minipci slot running windows is not the easiest for
some people. Obviously it's not recommended, but what kind of
sucess/failure reports have you gotten?

Thanks again for the work.

-pete

 

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Peter Johanson
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